Ornella
Ornella is a girl name of Italian origin, meaning Flowering ash tree.
What Ornella means
Flowering ash tree.
Ornella sits at 7 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Ornella comes from
Italian names preserve Latin forms more directly than most European languages, often keeping the original vowel endings that other languages dropped.
Ornella is recorded as Italian in origin. Browse other Italian names.
How popular is Ornella?
You will not find Ornella in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Ornella
We group Ornella under flowers and growing things and the natural world — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Ornella
These share Ornella's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Fiorella — Little flower.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Daphne — The laurel tree.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Iris — Rainbow; messenger of the gods.
- Lily — The lily flower — purity and beauty.
- Rose — The rose flower.
- Sakura — Cherry blossom.
- Violet — The violet flower; the color purple.
- Acacia — Thorny tree; resurrection.
- Alani — Orange tree.
- Anthea — Flower; blossom.